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This whole thing about scanning your face to prove tour age is making me remember, in 2018 while out in paris we got our wallet stolen during a particularly busy night at a lesbian bar. It was very late and with no money to buy metro tickets we were effectively stranded, but some people helped us and we ended up staying the night at a really sweet older man's place. His face was deeply scarred and he was missing an eye. We chatted on our way and he told me about his life, probably to help calm me down. He explained he had been stuck in a house fire 20 years ago and had had multiple rounds of facial reconstruction and a skin graft, but there's only so much surgery can do so he just learned to live with it. I remember he said he liked the queer bars because they're the only place people don't really stare at him.

At some point I took out my phone, and at the time I was using face unlock. This prompted him to tell me all the ways this technology doesn't work on him. How his phone selfie camera doesn't focus right because it's not a detecting a face. How he had to update his ID the old fashioned way, because the website kept rejecting his photos. And how it was becoming more and more common, and how it was making his life way harder.

This was 7 years ago, and now whenever I see this sort of technology I think of how that guy can't use it. And how house fires are pretty common, and how anything from being born this way to a skin condition to heavy tattooing can probably cause the same issue. Can these people get age verified ? Will they just lose access to all social media, which are increasingly necessary in society, if this becomes the norm ? These are people who are already driven out of public spaces due to how they look, and they're getting pushed out online too all in the interest of companies wanting more money.

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Past/Memories ft Jack! (this is an unfinished prompt from last year's college trio month. Jack Fenton's backstory, my beloved.)

This is my attempt to create an early childhood for Jack that feels like it could have been canon, right down to the offhanded way Jack talks about what was definitely a traumatic event but isn't handled at all seriously in its presentation.

Jack being the youngest of six boys is something that feels so right to me. This is implied, but the reason why none of his brothers would be mentioned in canon is because all of them think Jack is crazy and try to avoid contact with him, which is easy because they're all scattered across the country. Jack has a tendency to ruin family reunions with his antics, so it's been quite a few years since Jazz and Danny have seen any of their uncles or cousins. And yes, each of Jack's brothers are very successful in stereotypical respectable fields. Jack is the black sheep for being ghost-obsessed, despite being arguably just as much of a genius as the rest of them. (Thematically, I use Jack's distance from his brothers to help illustrate how his friendship with Vlad was special ((there's weight to the fact Jack wants his children to call Vlad their uncle)), and also serve as a sad precursor to where their friendship ends up.)

Jack's beloved grandfather and the most important person in his life was a senile WW1 veteran who saw ghosts everywhere. Jack's earliest memories are of hunting ghosts with him, while the rest of the family humored their games. At about the age of seven or eight, Jack witnessed the appearance of a real ghost that gave his startled grandfather a fatal heart attack on the spot. No one in the family believed him when he said his death was because of a ghost, and they especially weren't amused by Jack's outbursts at the funeral. (Jack talks about this traumatic event in the present in his usual matter of fact, comedic way, of course.)

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this is racist on its own but i think what always gets me about these types of posts is (and i realize this is a very surface level observation but) you never see people on here say "western live-action dramas are the high school girls in underwear medium" people will critique riverdale or pretty little liars or supernatural or the such individually but the issue is almost always attributed to the specific piece of media or the writers and not the medium as a whole despite the fact that a large amount of these examples do in fact do the same things people constantly act like are unique flaws of anime (misogyny, sexualization of high school characters, romanticization of underage characters getting with overage ones, ect.) it's all just very blatant

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this is makin me tear up

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IDK

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Team phantom 👻

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Recently I re-watch one of my fav toons from childhood

I cried a lot cause I miss those days

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twitter didn't deserve this one

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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

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Remember, it is important to get a daily intake of 1000 mg caffeine each day

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this is, as the kids say, frying me (a glasses wearer)

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Team Mom.mp4

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I just made a new sideblog and found out this setting is disabled by default.

This means that ALL new blogs will NOT have a [username].tumblr.com page. Not only that, but they will not have any themes besides the mobile-default.

As someone who really likes custom themes and Tumblr still having a fully customizable profile page, please turn this on!

You can make a website for your tumblr blog that is entirely your own!

Finding posts on your URL.tumblr.com page is much easier due to the ability to use your Archive and url.tumblr.com/tagged/[tag] pages!

Visiting your mutual's tumblr pages will become much more fun if they do the same! I used to always associate blogs with the themes they had, but that's sadly not possible anymore :(

If Tumblr themes die out, it will truly be an end of an era for the internet, and the future will hold only mobile-orientated, endless-scroll design devoid of personality.

Even if you don't like themes, this is a move that almost destroys Tumblr's origin as a blogging website and showcases the takeover of social-media-sameness.

Having your own URL and custom theme is fun! Try it today!!!

Edit: I focused on promoting custom themes but I do encourage people to simply turn on this setting for the URL. You can pick a free tumblr theme or even leave on the tumblr mobile-orientated default!

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best typo ive ever made i think

reblog if you feep stupid

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i really like this thing where websites will have separate "log in" & "sign up" buttons and if you click "log in" it takes you to a sign-up screen anyway so you have to click "i already have an account" and then it will ask if you want to sign in with your facebook account or with instagram or linkedin or deviantart or whatever, and if you choose "username & password" it asks if you want to put in your username or use your thumbprint, and once you put your username & password it emails you a confirmation code, and once you put in the code it says "do you want to give us your phone number for future sign-ins? do you want to sign up for facial recognition? do you want to give us your bones? give us your fucking bones?